Maria Montessori Quote Mug

Simply type in your favorite quote, or use one of the famous Montessori quotes below to make your own one-of-a-kind shirt! The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.' Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men. Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator. The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth. Education is a natural process carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words, but by experiences in the environment.